This very low-budget drama tries to be non-exploitational but still ends up rather campy as it chronicles the endeavors of a...
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Aunt Coll
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1981
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It's nice to know that some of the greatest of the movie stars, while doing some of the most famous and best of Hollywood...
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1980
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Billy (Jon Voight) is on the road with his son T.J. (Ricky Schroder), fighting low-end boxing matches for drinking money...
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1979
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The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the...
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1979
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"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California,...
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1978
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Battered concentrates upon three female victims of spousal abuse. Chip Fields is the new wife of struggling young...
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Edna Thompson
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1978
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In this actioner, bounty hunter Sam Kellough, who is also an ex-cop, and an ex-ballplayer, is out to earn the $20,000 reward...
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Mrs. Fitzgerald
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1978
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Sarah Goode
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1977
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A big daddy in the underworld is betrayed and vows to settle up. There's lots of action in this big-city streets tale. ~ Rovi...
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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1975
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In this drama, a gambling-addicted housewife resorts to stealing from the family savings account to feed her obsession....
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1975
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In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief...
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1975
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This comedy is comprised of three vignettes involving a school psychiatrist, a pair of police sergeants, and a beleaguered...
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1974
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Jenny
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1971
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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1969
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Voodoo, hungry 'gators, and love abound in this Z-grade exploitationer set within the steamy Florida Everglades. There a man...
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1969
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Joan Blondell guest stars as Florabelle Campbell, who many years ago had been at the center of a romantic rivalry between...
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1968
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This forgettable comedy finds Joe Lightcloud (Elvis Presley) as a mixed-blood Indian with strong ties to his tribe and his...
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Glenda Callahan
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1968
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Robert Brown, David Soul, and Bobby Sherman were the stars of Here Come The Brides, which ran on ABC from September of 1968...
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1968
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Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his...
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Kittibelle
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1968
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Larouge
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1967
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"A rootin', tootin', but sincere picture" was the advertising tag for the comedy western Waterhole No. 3. James Coburn plays...
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1967
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Joan Blondell guests as Laura London, a Mermanesque Broadway musical star who moves into the apartment one floor above...
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1967
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Told via flashback by a saloon keeper to a census taker in a tiny Texas town, this brutal, adult-oriented western offers the...
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Mrs. Lavender [Main Cast]
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1966
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In this episode from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, the two good guy spies must stop a criminal mastermind from altering the...
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1966
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As a ploy to get extra money for a leopard-skin jacket, Lucy (Lucille Ball) tells Mooney (Gale Gordon) that her refrigerator...
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Joan Brenner
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1965
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With the help of her new neighbor Joan, Lucy tries to line up her handsome acquaintance Brad Collins (Keith Andes) as her...
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Joan Brenner
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1965
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1965
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Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid...
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1965
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Union Colonel Brackenby (Melvyn Douglas) and his second-in-command, Captain Heath (Glenn Ford), attempt to command a rather...
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"Easy Jenny"
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1964
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As a repairman (Sterling Holloway) works on his malfunctioning television set, middle-aged TV addict Joe Britt...
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Phyllis Britt
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1964
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Kathie Browne makes her third appearance as Adam Cartwright's erstwhile lady friend Laura Dayton. Encouraged by her Aunt Lil...
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1964
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Based on Jenny Angel, a novel by Elise Oaks Barber, Angel Baby is a gloves-off study of the faith-healing racket. The title...
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Mollie Hays
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1961
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After stealing a million dollars from the burning ocean liner "Morro Castle", Cuban thief Valentine Ferrar is pursued by by...
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1961
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Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy...
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Peg Costello
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1957
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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Crystal St. Clair
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1957
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While overseeing the atomic tests in the Nevada desert, Army colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to extensive...
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1957
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Jayne Mansfield recreated her starmaking stage role in this film adaptation of George Axelrod's Broadway comedy. Mansfield...
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Violet
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1957
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Though his staunchest supporters may disagree, Lizzie is arguably director Hugo Haas' best film. Adapted from Shirley...
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Aunt Morgan
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1957
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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1956
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1955
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1953
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Annie Rawlins
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1951
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When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back...
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Lydia
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1950
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Reminiscent of the classic "screwball" comedy-mysteries of the prewar years, Columbia's The Corpse Came C.O.D stars Warner...
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Rosemary Durant
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1947
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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Zeena
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1947
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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Ann Nelson
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1947
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In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his...
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Marjorie Mossrock
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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Helen Melohn
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1945
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Aunt Sissy
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1945
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Allen R. Kerward's flagwaving stage play Proof thro' the Night was vastly improved in its screen adaptation, which was...
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Grace
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1943
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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Joan Keating Chambers
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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Hope Banner
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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Gail Richards
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1941
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The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for...
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Jenny Blake
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1941
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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Geraldine "Jerry" Brokaw
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1940
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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Molly Mahoney
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1940
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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Jenny Swanson
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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Mary Wilson
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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Doris Harvey
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1939
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One review of Columbia's The Amazing Mr. Williams referred to its private-detective hero as "slap happy". As played by...
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Maxine Carroll
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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Jane Morgan
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1939
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Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own...
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Sally Reardon
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1938
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in...
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Lester Plum
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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"Timmy" Blake
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1937
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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Mona Carter
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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Dorothy
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1937
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Those beautiful Busby Berkeley babes are back at work, seeking financial backing for a Broadway show. Salvation comes from a...
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Norma Parry
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1936
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Peggy Revere
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1936
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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Lee Morgan
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1936
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Mabel
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1936
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Minnie Hawkins
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a pacifistic song-and-dance man is compelled to don a military uniform for one of his acts. Before...
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Yvonne
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1936
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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Angela Twitchell
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1935
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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Gloria Fay
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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Alice Hughes
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1935
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Ginger Stewart
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1935
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A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the...
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Vicki Wallace Thorpe
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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Mabel Anderson
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1934
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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Rose Lawrence
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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Maria Lawson
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1934
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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Rosy
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1934
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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Olga Michaels
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1933
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Tony Landers
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1933
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Set during the Depression, this crime drama centers upon a basically honest girl who is forced into prostitution by...
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Blondie Johnson
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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Nan Prescott
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1933
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The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and...
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Mae Knight
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1933
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Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
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Nancy Lorraine
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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Carol King
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1933
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Anne
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1933
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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Vida
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1932
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Mary Keaton
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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"Flips" Montague
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1932
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Miss Adams/Miss Pinkerton
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1932
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Maizie Dickson
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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Ruth
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1932
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Howard Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his...
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Ann
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1932
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Zoë Akins' archetypal "gold-digger" stage comedy The Greeks Had a Word for It was transferred to the screen in 1933, with the...
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Schatze
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1932
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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Myrtle Nichols
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1931
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William A. Wellman's triangle melodrama "The Steel Highway" -- a title referring to the film's railroad setting -- was...
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Marie
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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Angie
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1931
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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Marion Moore
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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Maloney
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1931
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Blonde Crazy is the kind of amoral fun that disappeared from Hollywood after 1933, once the Production Code forced morality...
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Ann Roberts
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1931
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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Fifi
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1931
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Few actresses exuded as much raw sensuality as the pre-Production Code Barbara Stanwyck. In Illicit, Anne Vincent (Stanwyck)...
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Helen Duckie Childers
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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Mamie
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1931
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Loretta Young briefly contemplates using her sexual allure to get ahead in business in this sometimes frank but ultimately...
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Pearl
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1931
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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Catherine Murdock
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1930
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Based on the play Penny Arcade, Sinner's Holiday marked the film debut of James Cagney. After seeing the performance on...
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Myrtle
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1930
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Warner Brothers was one of the big studios of the 30s and had many talented performers under contract. See some of their...
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See more mistakes and fumblings of the stars. ~ Rovi...
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